Typesetting device for x-ray identification and type holder therefor



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Patented Sept. 8, 1936 UNITED STATES TYPESETTING DEVICE FOR X-RAY IDEN-' TIFICATION AND TYPE HOLDER THERE- FOR Edwin S. Ingersoll, Rochester, N. Y.

Application November 30, 1934, Serial No. 755,344

9 Claims.

This invention relates to X-ray identification and particularly to a device for setting type for X-ray identification and a type holder therefor. One object of my invention is to provide a device for holding type which can be placed on or over an X-ray negative so that a legend will appear on the developed film. Another object of my invention is to provide a type holder with a means for retaining the type in the holder and to provide a type setting device with which the holder is adapted to cooperate so that type can be moved easily into the holder. Another object of my invention is to provide a type holder with a plurality of type receiving grooves so arranged that the holder may be placed on a type setting device and type can be transferred from the setting device to either of the type holding grooves. Still another object of my invention is to provide a type setting device which consists of a means for holding a plurality of different type elements which can be conveniently transferred to a main slideway from which they may be moved into a type holder by operating a plunger. Still another object of my invention is to provide a type holder with a main slideway for the type and a series of supplementary slideways in which the various type elements may be contained so that the type members can be quickly and easily loaded into the type holder and other objects will appear from the following specification, the novel features being particularly pointed out in the claims at the end thereof.

In X-ray work it is necessary to provide the various X-ray exposures with designating charactors or legends and this has been done in the past by placing lead letters or type on adhesive tape and placing the tape on the holder for the X-ray negative. It has been diilicult to do this rapidly and moreover the adhesion between the usual type of lead letter and adhesive tape is not alwayssufflcient to prevent the letters from dropping oif. Moreover, it is diflicult to set up the type elements neatly so that they will print a clear legend in the desired position on an X-ray iilm.

My invention has been particularly directed towards a means for rapidly setting up type elements so that they will be in proper alignment in a type holder and so that they cannot possibly be accidentally dislodged from the type holder.

Coming now to my invention wherein like reference characters denote like parts throughout:

Fig. 1- is a perspective view of a type holder mounted on a type setting device both constructed in accordance with and embodying a preferred form of my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view showing the type setting device broken away in the center portion thereof and showing the type holder mounted on the type setting device in a position different from the position shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view on line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view on line 4-4 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 5--5 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged side elevation with a portion shown in section of a type holder removed from the type setting device;

Fig. 7 is a greatly enlarged view of a type element removed from the holder;

Fig. 8 is an enlarged fragmentary detail through an under-cut groove 4;

Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 8 but of another type of under-cut groove; and

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary detail of a negative provided with a legend made in accordance with my invention and developed to show the characters as underexposed portions in an otherwise exposed negative.

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary perspective view of the bottom of the type holder illustrating the spring arm for holding type therein.

In Fig. 1 I have illustrated as a preferred embodiment of my invention a type holder designated broadly as i, mounted on a type setting device designated broadly as 2. The type setting device consists of a plate with a main slideway 3 with which a series of supplementary slideways 4 communicate at oneend. These slid-eways are undercut so as to have overhanging flanges 6, as shown in Fig. 8, to confine the edges of type members 5, as shown in Fig. 7. Thus these type members may slide freely in the slldeway's 4' and in the slideway 3.

In Fig. 8 the undercut edges of the slidewa'ys 4 are shown to consist of flange-like portions B'extending over grooves 'i cut in the walls.

However, if desired, as shown inPig. 9, the dice-- ways 4 may be provided with beveled walls 8 which will confine the complementary beveled walls 9 of the type elements In in such a way that they cannot fall out of the slideways.

Referring to Fig. 1 the holder 2 is provided with a series of undercut slots 4 and in each one of these series I prefer to have letters and numerals.

While these letters and numerals form no part of my present invention they can be conveniently made as shown in Fig. '7 by attaching a lead letter II to a rectangle of material through which X- rays may pass freely such as a thin aluminum plate or a plate made from cellulosic material. Since X-rays will not pass through the lead but pass freely through the rectangular base only the letters will appear on the completed negative.

I prefer to construct the type holder member I of aluminum or of some other suitable material through which X-rays penetrate quite freely so that this plate will not affect the exposure of the negative when it is placed between a film and the source of X-rays.

Referring to Fig. 1 each of the slots 4 is provided with suitable characters and when it is desired to set up a legend for exposure the characters may be slid through the opened end of slot 4 into the main slideway 3 after the plunger I2 has been moved in the direction shown by the arrow until the pin I3 strikes against the bridge I4 and prevents the plunger from being withdrawn from the type setting device.

The type elements may he slid one at a time from a slot 4 into the slideway 3 and by moving the plunger I2 to the left, the character will be moved into a slot I5 or IS in the type holder I. These slots, as best indicated in Figs. 5 and 6, are provided with undercut grooves I'I so as to retain the type elements in place.

It should be noted from Fig. 2 that the length of the plunger I2 is sufficient to entirely cover all of the ends of the grooves 4 so that when not in use the type elements cannot slide from these grooves.

The end I8 of the plunger is also of sufiicient length to pass from the end of the main slideway 3 so that it may shove a type element 5 into a slot of the holder, as indicated in Fig. 2.

I provide the type holder with a means for retaining the type in place when the holder is removed from the type setting device 2. This is shown in Figs. 5 and 6. As indicated in Fig. 6, one end of the web I9 which separates the slots I5 and I6 is slotted at the bottom as shown at 20. The end of the web I9 is bent downwardly so that it will form a spring 2I tending to close the width of the slots I6 and I1 so that a type element 5 cannot slide from the end 22 of the type holder and thus become lost or misplaced. However, when the type holder I is placed on the type setting device 2, as indicated in Fig. 5, a lug or projection 23 carried by the sliding member 24,

which is provided with a seat 25, (as best shown in Fig. 2) for the end of the type holder, the lug 23 strikes the underneath side of the spring 2|, springing it upwardly into the position shown in Fig. 5. In this position the slot I6 is of the same width as the main slideway 3 in the type setting device 2 and type can be freely entered into a slot I6 or IT. Referring to Fig. 11 it will appear that since the slot 20 extends entirely through the member I to the undercut slots I5 and I6 it substantially severs the end of the web I9 from the base except for the portion 4 I. Consequently, the end can be bent slightly as shown in Fig. 6 to form a type holding spring 2i. The width W of the slot 20 is such that there is ample clearance for the lug 23 of the sliding member 24. The width w of the lug 23 is preferably such that it lies in the center only of slot 20 and will not project into the undercut grooves I5 or I6. It does not, therefore, obstruct the free movement of type elements 5 in these grooves except at such physician can be engraved as at 28.

times as the type holder is removed from the block. The spring 2I will then spring in the direction shown by the arrow in Fig. 11 to partially close the slots I5 and I6.

However, as soon as the legend is set up in the slots I5 and I6 and the type holder I is removed from the seat 25 by merely moving it in the direction shown by the arrow in Fig. 2, the web I3 is permitted to drop downwardly to the position shown in Fig. 6 in which the type elements will be retained in their proper position.

I preferably provide a pad or space 21 on the type holder I in which the name of the hospital or These letters can be engraved and filled with a material which is impervious to X-rays so that the engraved matter together with the desiredlegendwill appear on each X-ray film. Such a material is litharge.

Since the type holder may be provided with more than one slot it is necessary to provide a means for registering the various slots of the type holder with the main slideway 3 of the type setting device. Accordingly, a seat 25 is provided in a slidable member 24, this member consisting of a block movable in a groove 29 and being limited in its movement by the pin 30 which passes through the slot 3| in the slidable member. This pin and slot permits the type holding device I to be adjusted so that type may slide freely from the slideway directly into the undercut slot I5 or the undercut slot I6 according to the adjustment of the slidable member 30.

I prefer to provide a pad of soft material, such as felt or the like 32, on the bottom of the type setting device 2, since this is preferably made of metal.

It is believed that in most instances a physician or hospital may have a number of the typeholding devices I and a single type setting device 2 so that a series of the holders can be properly filled in rapid succession from a single type setting device.

As will appear from Fig. 10 when a film has been exposed the legend carried by the type holder will appear on the negative with all parts, except the type on the type members, appearing as an exposed area. Thus each negative can readily be provided with a neat and accurate aligned legend which will identify the patient with the particular X-ray exposures.

While I have described a preferred embodiment of my invention and one which has proven entirely satisfactory in operation, I, nevertheless, contemplate as within the scope of my invention all such forms as may come within the terms of the appended claims.

What I claim as my invention and desire to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A type holder for X-ray identification comprising a block with an undercut groove therein, in which type members may slide, a closure for the groove at one end, said groove extending to the opposite end of the block, at least one side of the block adjacent the open ended groove including a spring tending to reduce the size of the end of the groove, said spring tending to press toward the bottom of the undercut groove to reduce the size thereof and prevent type from sliding out.

2. A type holder for X-ray identification comprising a block pervious to X-rays with more than one undercut groove for receiving type members therein, said grooves being open at one endof the block and closed at the other end ill thereof and a spring member on at least one side of each groove normally tending to reduce the size of the open end of the groove to prevent type members from sliding out.

3. In a type setting device for X-ray identification including a seat for a type holder, in combination with a type holder including an undercut groove for receiving type members and a spring member tending to reduce the size of an end of the groove adapted to lie in the seat of the type setting device, means mounted in the seat and adapted to contact with the spring member for opening the groove to full size when the holder is placed in the seat of the type setting device.

4. In a type setting device for X-ray identification, including a seat for a type holder, in combination with a type holder including an undercut groove for receiving type members, the groove being defined by overhanging walls one of which is separated from the type holder by a groove forming a spring member tending to close the width of the undercut groove to prevent type from sliding out, a protuberance in the seat of the type holder adapted to engage said spring and open said undercut groove for the reception of type when the holder is placed in the seat of the type setting device.

5. In a type setting device for X-ray identification, the combination with a block having a long slot across one side thereof and a series of short slots at right angles to the long slot and communicating therewith at one end, of overhanging walls to the slots adapted to confine type members therein, a plunger adapted to slide through the long slot and to be confined therein by the overhanging walls, the length of the plunger being such that it may slide past all of the short communicating slots and means for preventing the plunger from being totally withdrawn from an end or the long slot.

6. A type holder for X-ray identification comprising a block with an undercut groove therein adapted to receive type members with portions of said members lying beneath the undercut walls of the groove, an end portion of a wall of the groove being partially severed from the base by a slot extending through the block to an undercut groove, the end of the said wall being bent toward the base to form a spring adapted to retain the type members in the groove.

7. A type holder for X-ray identification comprising a block with an undercut groove i'orming a main slideway and closed at one end, a plurality of supplemental undercut grooves closed at one end and terminating at the other end in the main slideway, all of said slideways lying in the same plane, a type holder including a plate with undercut slots closed at one end and spring means at the other end for confining type therein, a slidable member mounted on and having limited movement with respect to the block, inter-engaging means on the slidable member and type holder for locating the latter on the block with the type holding grooves in registration, and means for sliding type into the type holder.

8. A type holder for X-ray identification comprising a block with an undercut groove forming a main slideway and closed at one end, a plurality of supplemental undercut grooves closed at one end and terminating at the other end in the main slideway, a type holder including a plate with undercut slots closed at one end and means at the other end for confining type therein, a slidable member mounted on and having limited movement with respect to the block, inter-engaging means on the slidable member and type holder for locating the latter on the block with the type holding grooves in registration, means for retaining type in the undercut slots of the type holder, and a releasing device included in the inter-engaging means on the slidable member and type holder for releasing the type holding means-of the type holder permitting type elements to slide therethrough.

9. A type holder for X-ray identification comprising a block with an undercut groove forming a main slideway and closed at one end, a plurality of supplemental undercut grooves closed at one end and terminating at the other end in the main slideway, a type holder including a plate with undercut slots closed at one end and means at the other end for confining type therein, a. slidable member mounted on and having limited movement with respect to the block, inter-engaging means on the slidable member and type holder for locating the latter on the block with the type holding grooves in registration, a portion of a wall forming an undercut groove of the type holder constituting a spring arm tending to spring to a type holding position, and a lug carried by the slidable member and included in the inter-engaging means for locating the type holder on the block for moving the type holding spring to a position in which type may slide freely.

EDWIN S. INGERSOIL 

